Icon, Cult, and Context ARCHITECTURE / Buildings / General

Icon, Cult, and Context ARCHITECTURE / Buildings / GeneralHonors UCLA professor emerita Susan Downey and her meticulous scholarship on religious architecture and imagery in the Roman Hellenistic world. The broad temporal and geographic parameters of the volume are expansive, and the juxtaposition of images and analyses leads to surprising new conclusions.

Heavily illustrated volume

interdisciplinary collection

Lars Weckbecker focuses on the productions of the National Film Unit in the 1940s and '50s

This concise yet comprehensive book delineates German philosopher Jürgen Habermas’s conception of the European Union

A ground-breaking book on nation-building

It adds a theory of power to suggest the agency of early Homo sapiens

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This is the first book to provide a direct and comprehensive account of British art cinema

the role of Ciutat Vella (old quarter) as a film set

Peter Rose’s ‘Rose Boys’ and many others

Argues that the recent history of maverick mannerist and baroque auteurs

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